In the afternoon of April 26, a group of 6 people, including Xie Qing, Deputy Mayor of Xinhui District, Jiangmen Municipal, Guangdong Province, visited our institute. A technology symposium was held between such group and the institute Sectary Gu Xiaohong, Head of Science and Technology Division, Zhang Lu, Deputy Head Yang Lei and relevant scientists.

Deputy Head of the Science and Technology Division, Yang Lei held the symposium and expressed the welcome. Later, Yang briefly introduced the scientists attending the symposium. Deputy Mayor, Xie Qing, introduced the general development of Xinhui District in recent years and expressed the purpose of this visit. Xinhui District paid great attention to the establishment of ecological civilization and was positively treating black-odor rivers within the management district. Therefore, this visit was for seeking technical support from out institute. Besides, Deputy Mayor Xie Qing also expressed that Xinhui District paid attention to innovation and was looking forward for technological cooperation. Xie hoped that the mutual parties can explore a way to cooperate so as to realize win-win and mutual development.

Later, scientists attending the symposium communicated on the technology of treating the black-odor rivers concerning Xinhui District and other technological issues and introduced their own researching areas and achieved research outcomes. Researcher Chen Kaining, combining with the cases of black-odor river treatment under the charge of the project team, introduced the main causes of black-odor rivers, keys and difficulties of treatment technology and the treatment achievements.

Sectary Gu Xiaohong suggested researchers of our institute to carry out field investigations at Xinhui District for deepening the understanding and creating cooperation base. Gu also hoped that Xinhui District to establish an initial cooperation relationship on the basis of the project and explored a new cooperation mode during the cooperation so as to seek a great development.